Farming Australia The backbone of the nation

So many of us feel dependant on the large super markets for our every day needs, rarely stopping to realise that, in fact, we are really depending on those great families, far removed from the cities, the farmers, power generators, earth movers, miners, rail roaders, dam and pipeline constructors and so many other important people out there, who go about their duties for us, largely unnoticed.

In the Fernlees district near Emerald Qld these three Gleaner harvesters make short work of this very large crop on a broard acre farm. The large semi trailers were kept busy hauling away the grain to firstly be weighed on a road weigh bridge and then, unloading into the below ground pit which feeds it by augers into massive silos. Drivers have UHF two way radios on board